THE WAR ON CANNABIS CLINICIANS

Fred Gardner | July 22, 2016

The low-intensity war on cannabis clinicians —part of a long-range containment and rollback effort planned by top industry and government strategists after California voters legalized marijuana for medical use in 1996— has been heating up.

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) is now pushing guidelines that could result in cannabis clinicians being investigated based on the number of patients they’ve approved and/or number of plants authorized. The FSMB guidelines, when adopted by state boards, could also result in physicians who medicate with cannabis losing their licenses based on an assumption of impairment!

THE WAR ON CANNABIS CLINICIANS